Correspondence dated 11 September 1947

Summary

An item from the surviving correspondence of William John Sands.

Historical context

This item forms part of the surviving William John Sands correspondence and is dated 11 September 1947. It is preserved in the William John Sands Family Archive as evidence of Sands’s professional work and relationships. The accompanying transcript was produced by machine OCR and should be checked against the original scan before being treated as a definitive reading.

Catalogue description

Original correspondence scan imported from the Sands and Ferguson family archive. Source file: 19470911.pdf.

Machine transcript — unreviewed

‘ ~\ "“yrtlefiela" Hillsboro 014 Road, LISBURN, llth September, 1947, Dear Mr. Ferguson, I have now made arrangerents with Mr. Wilson to go over to Coventry on the 29th of thia month, I am sorry I conld not get sooner, but as it was impossible to get a berth before that date I could not consider travellin. any other way. I hope to hve | chat with von when I am J /er, as I aant to tell fyou the »lansa I am thinking of for the future{ I, myself, ti.nk it would .@ a muc.. better arrvear, emer. 17 I was to be independent of Jour firm, then I would be at liberty to use those idens and inventions which you do not require, \ / This\will save you a lot of nmey asp « you will only Se payin, for what you think ia of use to you, it will also save me a considerable amount of Income Bax, I have nid your letter to Mr, Thorpeon end have heard some\of the strtementsa in it twenty years go, I always yeam to e living for ‘he future it is like th otice I once sw in a pub "free @rinks to-morro one thing thet plagues me is my long memory, Best wishes and kind re-erda, Yours aincerely,